'Tech Istanbul', which was established to support initiatives that can offer solutions suitable for the needs of the city, brought together creative ideas for the second time. In the program where 150 applications were received, 25 startups that could produce technological and fast solutions were identified and brought together with IMM units and affiliates. The 8-week trial study (PoC) process was started with 8 initiatives selected for testing.
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) units and subsidiaries hosted the Tech Istanbul Demo Day event, which was implemented by the IMM Information Processing Department, Smart City Branch Directorate in order to support initiatives that can offer solutions suitable for their needs, in Zemin Istanbul. In the program, the first of which was held in 2020; This year, nearly 150 applications were received in the fields of mobility, environment & energy and fintech. From the applications that were examined with great care, 25 startups that could produce technological and rapid solutions to the needs of Istanbul were determined and brought together with IMM units and subsidiaries. The 8-week PoC process was started with 8 initiatives selected for testing. Idea holders will have the opportunity to develop their products according to the needs of Istanbul and to try them in the field for about 3 months by meeting with the experts in their fields and with the employees of IMM and its subsidiaries.
AKÇABAY: “ENTREPRENEURSHIP SHOULD BE MORE SUPPORTED”
The Tech Istanbul Demo Day event, where the products and services developed by the startups that completed the PoC process, took place on Tuesday, November 22. Making the opening speech of the program, Zeynep Neyze Akçabay, Deputy Secretary General of İBB, in her speech evaluating the position of Turkey and Istanbul in the entrepreneurship ecosystem, said, “We see that entrepreneurship in Turkey has risen in recent years, but it still needs to be developed and supported. At this point, it is very critical for the entrepreneurship culture to be established in local governments and to adapt it to new business models.
ÖZGÜNER: “WE CONTACT MANY AREAS AND PEOPLE”
One of the speakers of the program, Head of IMM Information Processing Department, Dr. Erol Özgüner said:
“IMM; We work to create value and benefit with a multi-stakeholder, inclusive structure by contacting many different fields and people with the focus of data science, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship at our Data Laboratory in our Başakşehir location and Zemin Istanbul technology centers located in our Şişhane metro station. In addition, we rapidly continue our activities in centers that we have implemented in different areas, from our children's acquaintance with technology, our young people's access to new generation technologies, from supporting our entrepreneurs to developing projects in the fields of artificial intelligence and data science by the relevant experts.”
MET WITH IMM UNITS
After the opening speeches and the completion of the process transfer, 8 startups selected made their presentations together with IMM units. Numondial Digital, which works with the IMM Public Transportation Services Branch Office, shared the projects with the Urban Ecological Systems Branch Office with esular, ISBAK with Swarmnect, Servissoft, Hergele, ISPARK with Visiosoft, İSTAÇ with Biriktir, Istanbul Energy and Sensemore with the participants.
8 SOLUTIONS TO 8 NEEDS
Accumulate: Developing sustainable environmental technologies against the climate crisis, Biriktir app prevents the formation of carbon footprints by providing individuals and corporate company employees with sustainable green habits with its gamified system and carries out carbon footprint measurement.
Esular: Thanks to the products placed, situations such as water leakage will be detected automatically, and water will be saved by automatically stopping irrigation when the soil does not need it.
Scoundrel Mobility: By integrating the charging stations in the smart banks into Hergele's software, smart banks and the vehicles connected to them can be tracked via the IoT system.
Numondial Digital: In minibuses, it is aimed to plan the potential minibus stops and lines, to increase the quality of the journey and to provide the income balance between the lines in the operators by making the analysis of the number of passengers and route analysis in the time-space plane by using the existing interior cameras with artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Sensemore: Sensemore is an easy-to-use maintenance platform that prevents unexpected downtimes, increases equipment lifetime and reduces energy consumption by notifying potential failures months before they occur with root cause analysis thanks to hardware and artificial intelligence tools specially designed for machine health analysis.
Servicesoft: It is a software platform that centralizes maintenance information and facilitates the processes of maintenance operations by detecting possible failures with artificial intelligence technology and supporting it with digital twin (real-time virtual copy) services.
Swarmnect: By using images taken from public transportation vehicles and image processing technology, areas such as potholes, defects and excavations on the road line are detected quickly and automatically, the relevant units are informed, and the problems on the road are resolved in a short time without affecting the citizens.
Visiosoft: Faulty parking/parking control, detection of parking signs made by human power allows to perform automatically with the camera or phone application placed in the vehicle, with image processing technology.
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